Sexo

Male

Birth date

1929-3-26

Local de nascimento

HI, U.S.A.

Inducted

1948-7-2, Honolulu HI

Tipo de alistamento

Volunteer

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War,peacetime

Tipo de Unidade

Combat,sup

Unidades onde serviu

7/48-7/50: Enlisted Service (Cpl) 8309th Sig Svs, Ft Shafter, HI
8/50-1/51: Officer Candidate School, Ft. Riley, KS
2/51-5/51: Student Officer - The Infantry School, Ft. Benning, GA
6/51-7/52: POW Interrogation Officer, Hq 3rd Inf Div, Korea
7/52-7/53: Translation Officer, 509th MISP, Sendai, Japan
8/53-1/54: Co. Exec Officer, USARPAC DEF FORCE, Ft. Shafter, HI
2/54-2/81: U.S. Army Reserve (retired as a Colonel) Ft. DeRussy, HI

Military specialty

9335 Intelligence Officer

Stationed

USA: Ft. Shafter,HI; Ft. Riley,KS; Ft. Benning, GA
Other Countries: Korea; Japan

Separated

Ft. DeRussey HI

Unit responsibility

POW interrogation and translation of captured documents.

Personal responsibility

POW interrogation, train enlisted interrogators, review interrogation reports and document translations.

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Korea:
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
2nd Korean Winter
Summer-Fall '52.

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Legion of Merit
Bronze Star
Korean Service Medal w/3 Bronze Service Stars
UN Service Medal
Meritorious Unit Commendation
Korean Presidential Unit Citation
National Defense Medal
1 O/S Bar
Armed Forces Reserve Medal w/2 Stars
Army Reserve Achievement Medal w/2 Stars

Living conditions

We lived in squad tents with a pot belly stove on each end of the tent. These stoves did little to keep us warm during winter. We were provided army cots with air mattress to sleep on.
There was very little entertainment. I saw one USO show with Danny Kaye while in Korea.

Most vivid memory of military experience

As an enlisted man in 1949, I was selected to be a pall bearer for Ernie Pyle during his reinterrment ceremony at the National Cemetary of the Pacific in Hawaii.

Missed most whilst in the military

Family and old friends, especially while in Korea.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

Gained maturity, enlisted as a nineteen year-old kid and left active service as a matured officer.